Vitals Inquiry Concluded: Joseph Muscat Speaks Out

A magisterial inquiry into Joseph Muscat and other ministers’ role in the Vitals deal to privatise three state hospitals has been concluded, a court heard on Tuesday.
Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg must now analyse the inquiry and the 78 boxes of evidence it involved, to decide whether or not to file criminal charges against people named in it.
Muscat, who has spent the past year battling the inquiry, described it as a personal “vendetta” and accused the magistrate leading it, Gabriella Vella, of waging war against himself and the Labour Party.
“The institutions are working - working against Labourites,” Muscat said in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon. He said he had “no doubt” he would face criminal charges as a result of the probe, but said he had nothing to fear.
“If justice exists, I will be a free man and then receive compensation for damages suffered,” he says. “I know I did nothing wrong.”